| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: outlaw that calls himself Jack Holloway--attack and try to murder
him?"
"That's what we believe, but the report out is that one of us
punchers shot him up for crossing the dead-line."
"Didn't this fellow hold up the ranch and try to take Ned
Bannister away with him?"
"Yes, ma'am. But that doesn't look good to most people. They say
he had his friends come to take him away so y'u wouldn't hold him
and let us boys get him. This cousin business is a fairy tale the
way they size it up. How come this cousin to let him go if he
held up the ranch to put the sick man out of business? No, miss.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche: of their jealousy--they always go too far: so that their fatigue hath at
last to go to sleep on the snow.
In all their lamentations soundeth vengeance, in all their eulogies is
maleficence; and being judge seemeth to them bliss.
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to
punish is powerful!
They are people of bad race and lineage; out of their countenances peer the
hangman and the sleuth-hound.
Distrust all those who talk much of their justice! Verily, in their souls
not only honey is lacking.
And when they call themselves "the good and just," forget not, that for
Thus Spake Zarathustra |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Illustrious Gaudissart by Honore de Balzac: traveller, contradicts the knowing one, lords it over a dinner-table
and manages to get the titbits for himself. A strong fellow,
nevertheless, he can throw aside all this nonsense and mean business
when he flings away the stump of his cigar and says, with a glance at
some town, "I'll go and see what those people have got in their
stomachs."
[*] "Se gaudir," to enjoy, to make fun. "Gaudriole," gay discourse,
rather free.--Littre.
When buckled down to his work he became the slyest and cleverest of
diplomats. All things to all men, he knew how to accost a banker like
a capitalist, a magistrate like a functionary, a royalist with pious
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